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Characteristics:

› Each Stream Is Unique

› Focus on Headwaters

› Encourage Local Participation

› Collaborate with Others

› Healthy Environment, Healthy Community

› A Holistic Approach

Related Information:

› Geography of the Sugar Creek Area

› Social Factors

› Water Quality & Testing

› Best Practices Implemented at Sugar Creek

› History of the Project

 Testing sites in the Sugar Creek

Water Quality and Testing Along the Sugar Creek

 

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The first step in this process of watershed rehabilitation and restoration is to begin to assess the influence of landscape properties (including the source-sink dynamics of major nutrients) on water quality in the headwaters of agricultural watersheds.

  • The objective of the current research is to understand how landscape properties influence water quality in a small headwater agricultural watershed of north-central Ohio, identified by Ohio EPA as one of the most impaired watersheds in the state.
  • According to the Ohio EPA, sedimentation from agricultural activities and stream bank erosion may be the key factor preventing the restoration of the stream
 

 

Sugar Creek Method Overview | Each Stream Is Unique | Focus on Headwaters | Encourage Local Participation | Collaborate with Others | Healthy Environment, Healthy Community | A Holistic Approach

For more information about the Sugar Creek Method contact Richard H. Moore (moore.11@osu.edu),  Associate Professor, Human and Community Resource Development, The Ohio State University.